HOMES in Addingham and Steeton are set to benefit from a £27m investment by digital network provider, Openreach.

When work is finished, people will be able to contact their broadband provider and upgrade to full fibre broadband, with the new network being built to the majority of premises in Addingham and Steeton, along with more than 90,000 other properties across Yorkshire and the Humber.

It follows several key announcements last year outlining plans that more than 650,000 homes and businesses would be getting access to Openreach’s new network, including tens of thousands in rural and harder to serve areas.

Robert Thorburn, Openreach’s regional director for the North, said: “Nobody in the UK is building full fibre faster, further or at a higher quality than Openreach. We’re reaching more communities than ever and our team of highly-skilled engineers, alongside our build partners, are working hard to deliver some of the fastest and most reliable broadband available anywhere in the world."